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Literary and Miscdtaneous Intelligence. 



fares tluis wit!i many self-biograpliics ; 

 and llius the accounts of men aie Imt 

 faint shadoHS of their real history. 

 Miss Wilkes thus disposed of the itiann- 

 soript mcmoiis of John Wilkes; and, in 

 oiir experience, the same tiling iias oc- 

 curred a dozen times. 



Mr. DuFL'is, late bis Britannic 

 ]\Tajesty's envoy and consul at Ashantee, 

 is about to publish a Journal of bis 

 III sidenee in that Kingdom, which is 

 expected to throw considerable light on 

 the origin and causes of the present 

 war. It will comprise also bis notes 

 and researches relative to tlie Gold 

 Coast and the interior of Westirn Africa, 

 chiefly collected from Arabic manu- 

 scripts, ami information communicated 

 liy the Moslems of Guinea. 



Early in June will he published, the 

 Works of VicesiniusKnox, t).D. in seven 

 volumes, octavo, with au engraved 

 portrait. 



. We arc happy to learn that Clcnnrl, 

 the artist, is recovering his mental 

 facnllies, and therefore lik'dy to amU'i- 

 bnle further to the glory of the arts. 



In the press. Woodland Echoes, by 

 W. Tyler, or a Description of the 

 Sylvan Charms of Marlow, wilh poeti- 

 cal sketches of the scenery and objects 

 in that highly picturesque vale, through 

 which the Thames flows from Medmen- 

 ham Abbey to Cliefden, with notes, 

 liistorical and topographical ; and other 

 Poems. 



• Mr. Loudon, the author of the popu- 

 lar "Encyclopedia of Gar<iening," is 

 about to follow up that work by an 

 Encyclopedia of Agriculture, or the 

 tlicory and practice of the valuation, 

 transfer, improvement, and manage- 

 ment, of landed projjerty; and the cul- 

 tivation and economy of the animal and 

 vegetable ])roduction3 of agriculture, 

 including all the latest improvements, 

 a general history of agriculture in all 

 countries, and a statistical view of its 

 present state, wilh suggestions for its 

 tiiture progress in the jjritish isles. 



On the 1st of June will be published, 

 Part I. in imperial 4l6. with descrip- 

 tive letter-j)ress, (lo be completed in 

 twelve monthly parts,) Views in Aus- 

 tralia, or New South Wales and Van 

 Dioman's Land delineated. Each Part 

 will contain four views: two subjects in 

 New South Wales, and two in Van 

 Dieman's Land, with an exact and 

 faithful description of each view, its 

 situation, soil, trees, botanical produc- 

 tions, &,c. 



A fourth volume of the New Series of 



Monthly Mao. No. 39G. 



447 



the Memoirs of the Literary and Fhiio- 

 sophical Society of Mancliester, is in tlio 

 l)ress, and is expected to be published 

 about June. 



The following is a list of the pictures 

 purchased ofthe executors of the late Mr. 

 Angerstein, by government, for 58,000/. 

 and now open to public view: — 



1. The Embarkation of the Queen of 

 Sheba, by Claude. 



2. The Marriage of Kebecca — Claude. 



3. Ganymede — Titian. 



4. The IJape of the Sabines — Rubens. 



5. Tlie Emperor Tlieodosius expelled 

 the Church by St. Ambrose — Vandyke. 



0. St. John in the Wilderness — A. Car- 

 racci. 



7. Susaimah and Uic Elders — Lud. 

 Carracei. 



8. ABaechaiialianTriiimph — N.Ponssin. 



9. Ernienia with the Shepherds — Do- 

 menichino. 



10. Pliilip the Fourth of Spain and his 

 Queen — Velasquez. 



Jl. Venu.s and Adonis — Titian. 



12. Landscape; iMorning — Claude. 



13. An Italian Sea-port ; Evening — 

 Claude. 



14. The Raising of Lazarus — Seb. del 

 Piombino. 



15. A Concert — Titian. 



16. Pope Julius the Second — Raphael. 



17. Christ on the Mount — Corre!rgio. 



18. Portrait of Govartins— Vandyke. 



19. The Nativity — Rembrandt. 



21). The Woman taken in Adultery — 

 Rembrandt. 



21. The Embarkation of St. Ursula — 

 Claude. 



22. Abraham and Isaac — G. Poussin. 



23. A Land Storm — G. Poussin. 



ti4, A Landscape, with Cattle and Fi- 

 gures— Cuy p. 



2.5. Apollo and Silenus — A. Carracei. 



26. Holy Family in a Landscape — ■ 

 Rubens. 



27. The Portrait of Rubens — Vandyke. 

 Studies of Heads — Correggio. 



Ditto doT 



The Marriage A-la-Mgde — 

 Hoi'arth. 



36. Portrait of Lord Heathtield — Sir J. 

 Reynolds. 



37. The Village Holyday— Wilkie. 



38. Portrait ofthe Painter — Hogarth. 

 Mr. Fai^ey, jun. engineer, is about to 



publish a Treatise on the Steam engine, 

 historical, practical, and descriptive. 



Illustrations, Critical, flistorical. 

 Biographical, and Miseellaneous, of 

 Novels by the Author of " Waverlcy," 

 are publishing by subscription, by the 

 Kev. K.W AKNER ; and \\'\\\ be delivered 

 3 M ' to 



